While enterprises around the globe were shutting down and moving to remote work, frontline food suppliers, transport companies and grocery stores didn’t have that ability. AGNE needed to continue to distribute product to independent grocer members as well as its own stores throughout New England and New York, while also dealing with increased freight and procurement demands into the facility.
As a critical business, Associated Grocers of New England needed to continue distribution to independent grocer members as well as its own stores throughout New England and New York, while also managing increased freight and procurement demands into the facility during the beginning of the pandemic. The organization’s Risk Management and Loss Prevention teams stepped up to help.
Security spoke to Kimber Goerres, Security Systems Integration & Project Management Lead at Sony Electronics, who has served diligently in her role, ensuring the company’s error or down rate is nominal and establishing the technical security requirements for Sony offices globally. Here, Goerres speaks about her role, establishing technical security requirements and ensuring improved security levels through risk, vulnerability and audit assessments.
In the past, passwords were the key to accessing systems and platforms, and they held much value as a security measure for businesses. But over time, the threat landscape has evolved, and weaknesses have been discovered in standard encryption methods that have diminished the password’s value.
While many organizations may realize they can’t entirely eliminate cyber risk, they still need to quantify their security efforts and set thresholds to show whether they’re trending positively or introducing more risk. The right metrics help to shed light on a company’s current security posture and, more importantly, where it might have gaps, shortcomings, or areas to prioritize for future improvement.
Software as a service (SaaS) has taken over, and the average enterprise now uses hundreds of unique SaaS applications to accelerate their digital transformation and business velocity. However, while SaaS has fulfilled its growth-enabling potential, most organizations have lost their grip on its consumption and use. IT and security teams can no longer depend on network or endpoint controls to govern application access.
With more than a hundred continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools to choose from and hundreds of plugins and services connected to those tools, no wonder security teams have a hard time grasping the amount of information and security requirements of these environments.
By reimagining access control and use of existing system data, Yale’s Public Safety Systems and Services team was able to centralize and organize security technology operations, while providing further value across the entire university.
Once Yale University closed due to the pandemic in March 2020, the Public Safety Systems and Services team quickly realized that they could change the way access control was used and programmed across campus, while also streamlining security and operations.
Marc Barbiere came to Georgetown about five months before the COVID-19 pandemic, taking over the recently-restructured Office of Emergency Management (OEM) in order to coordinate the University’s efforts to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies.
Marc Barbiere came to Georgetown about five months before the COVID-19 pandemic struck with the goal of providing a robust framework for the University to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. Barbiere and the newly restructured Office of Emergency Management put together a framework to streamline and organize emergency and pandemic response to continue operations no matter the cause of disruption.
The cybersecurity industry is in the midst of a skills crisis. With a cyberattack occurring approximately every 39 seconds, every business needs a well-trained staff to protect it. How can the void be filled? Artificial intelligence (AI). It’s one of the best hopes for the industry and has the potential to ease the pressures of the security skills shortage.
It’s important that businesses understand that DDoS attacks aren’t just a blip on the radar; if not handled properly, they can be devastating to the long-term prospects of a business.